Accessibility Statement

Bord Bia is committed to making its websites accessible, in accordance with:

We aim to ensure that our online content is accessible to all users, including people with disabilities. This accessibility statement applies to content published on bordbiabloom.com.

Compliance Status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Level AA.

We work with our website developers to regularly review and improve the accessibility of our digital content. Through ongoing testing and auditing, we may identify areas, modules, or templates requiring further improvement.

Preparation for this Accessibility Statement

This statement was prepared on 27 June 2023 and last reviewed on 6 October 2026.

A formal quality assurance process was carried out by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd. through the Bord Bia Bloom website’s design process and with a combination of automated and manual accessibility audits, and the edits that derived from them, for the development process. A final verification audit was completed on 20 June 2023.

A continuous quality assurance process is carried out monthly by Kooba Internet Solutions Ltd. Axe Monitor tool by Deque is used to identify automated issues across up to 501 pages on bordbiabloom.com. Once automated issues are resolved, items flagged as “needs review” are manually verified by the Kooba team, followed by manual accessibility testing.

At the time of this statement the latest Axe Monitor scan returned a score of 47.09%.

Non-Accessible Content

Some content on the Bord Bia Bloom website does not fully comply with the WCAG 2.2 guidelines. For example:

  • ARIA: Ensures elements with ARIA roles have all required ARIA attributes. Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party script – WordPress Plugin.
  • Keyboard: Ensure elements that have scrollable content are accessible by keyboard. Timelines for Improvement: N/A 3rd party script – Kuula 360°.
  • Name, role, value: Ensures aria-hidden elements are not focusable nor contain focusable elements. Planned remediation in 2026.
  • Link purpose: Ensures links have discernible text. Planned remediation in 2026.

Limitations

PDFs

Bord Bia has a large volume of PDFs hosted on its website. PDFs are less accessible than HTML pages for people using assistive technologies. However, Bord Bia has limited resources and finances to retrospectively tag all PDFs.

For this reason, Bord Bia is committed to:

  • Appropriately tagging any new PDFs published on the website.
  • Tagging legacy documents over time, with a more urgent focus on documents that receive a large volume of traffic. This work will be ongoing.

Images

Not all images on bordbia.ie have photo (or meta-) descriptions. Bord Bia has accrued an extensive catalogue of images and it would be a disproportionate burden based on Bord Bia’s limited resources and finances to properly tag all of the images immediately.

However, Bord Bia is committed to:

  • Creating alt tags on each newly uploaded image.
  • Working through our library of previously uploaded imagery to tag each image.

Videos

Bord Bia hosts a large volume of videos on its website. Captioning is not present for many of these videos. Retrospectively captioning videos would take a large amount of financial and staff resources and would not be feasible based on Bord Bia’s budget and staff numbers.

For this reason, Bord Bia is committed to:

  • Appropriately captioning any new videos uploaded to the website.
  • Tagging legacy documents over time, with a more urgent focus on videos that receive a large volume of traffic. This work will be ongoing.

Feedback and Contact Information

We are committed to improving accessibility and welcome feedback on any accessibility barriers you encounter on the Bord Bia Bloom website.

If you experience difficulty accessing any part of the site or need information in an alternative format, please contact us via the form on this page. We will consider your request and get back to you as soon as possible.

Formal Complaints

In the event of an unsatisfactory response to any notification or request, the requestor may make a complaint in writing to the Ombudsman for consideration under the Disability Act.